:
The Firestorm and the Lightning docked in a bay our telescopes had located. We
quickly gathered our gear and headed down the route through the ship we were
given. Enemy resistance was much lighter than we expected. We arrived at a
large elevator which took us deeper into the ship, near its center where the
High One was to be found...

Jimmy Tango: If there's a trap behind here, I should go in first. I'm more
expendable, I'm just a Rookie.

Otto Zander: NO JIMMY WAIT! You're the only one preventing psionic-

Jimmy Tango: CHAAAAAAARGE!

Jimmy Tango: What the hell is this?

Jimmy Tango: They're all dead!

Jimmy Tango: These marks, look like laser burns! The aliens don't use laser
weaponry, what the hell?

Otto Zander: This is very odd.

Jimmy Tango: Correction, this one isn't dead.

Jimmy Tango: It's been shot, but it's still alive. It's not conscious.

Jimmy Tango: I'm going up. If the High One is there, I WILL kill it. For
Humanity!

Otto Zander: JIMMY! Your gun! We didn't give you a-

Jimmy Tango: Zander...it's the same up here.

Jimmy Tango: This is the High One? The most powerful psionic being? The
alien's God?

Otto Zander: You can see it?

Jimmy Tango: It's dead. It's so feeble and frail looking. There are laser
wounds all over its body. There are dead aliens all around me, and three
destroyed power sources. Scorch marks everywhere. There was a hell of a battle
here, recently at that.

Otto Zander: I-I don't believe this. I guess that would explain the lack of
organized defense and psionic attack. Fuck it, I'm not one to look a gift horse
in the mouth. Coolswa! Nemo! Target this location! Blow it to hell!

Otto Zander: Jimmy, grab that living Ethereal, but be careful. They're fragile
creatures. Everyone, back meet back at the elevator. We're going to blow up as
much shit on our way out as we can.

----

: It
was too good to be true. The alien's Hive Ship was destroyed. All their cloning
machines, their factories, their docked UFOs, gone. All of it. The High
Ethereal had been killed. There were a few UFOs on Earth at the time, but they
could be dealt with now that they had no leadership.

We had won the war.

Even though GoodShip and Cowcaster needed medical attention pretty badly, I
ordered the ships to scan for any remaining power sources or weird readings
coming from the debris.

: We
detected a small reading, indicating an elerium power source, but it was fading
fast.

----

Cooked Auto: What is that?

Jetsetlemming: It looks like an X-COM Power Suit. But we're not missing anyone.

Otto Zander: I'm moving closer.

Jetsetlemming: That's definitely a Power Suit, but the occupant inside....

Otto Zander: It's not a person inside!

Otto Zander: That's a robot! A fully robotic Power Suit!

Cooked Auto: Who in the hell built that?

Otto Zander: It wasn't X-COM as far as I know.

Jetsetlemming: Hold on, wasn't there a scientist who was lobbying Dr. Markus to
make robotic soldiers?

Otto Zander: Yeah, I think so. Professor, what was it...Able Standard, I think.
He quit the project months ago over a disagreement with Markus involving Standard
wanting to make something like this. Markus refused.

Cooked Auto: Do you think that thing is what killed the High One for us?